May 2013
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Book Review: Beautiful Disaster [2011] →
Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster was mentioned twenty percent of the time in the sources I consulted about readalikes for the 50 Shades trilogy. It was one of the few books that I was actually able to find on the shelf at my library. Some spoilers follow. The book told from the perspective of Abby Abernathy, a college freshman who is trying to make a fresh start and leave her troubled past...
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May 22nd
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“The (Fill in the Blank)’s Wife/Daughter Why are you pushing that feminist...”
– 4 Types of Book Titles I’m Totally Over (via bookriot)
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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I work at a public library.: Guy, Donut →
iworkatapubliclibrary: This is a bit longer and more heart-warmy than I normally post on this blog, but a friend thought I was crazy for not posting it here. So here goes! You know those shows where someone throws a dart at a map and goes to the town they hit and randomly chooses someone from the phone book and finds… This is a great library story!
May 22nd
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Book Review: Freedom & Necessity [1997] →
Several years ago, my sister gave me a copy of Freedom & Necessity, which came up in my second Reading Roulette* draw, enabling it to come off the bench and into the game at last. The book is an epistolary novel from science fiction fantasy heavyweights Steven Brust and Emma Bull that takes place, for the most part, in 1848 England. As the novel opens, James Cobham—presumed dead, but in...
May 22nd
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Book Review: Too Much Temptation [2002] →
Lori Foster’s Too Much Temptation was a less-recommended 50 Shades readalike than some I’ve discussed here, but it was available and came in through ILL! Sometimes you take what you can get. After Noah Harper discovers his bride-to-be in bed with another man, he’s too much of a gentleman to explain the reason for his broken engagement to his high-society grandmother, Agatha. When she promptly...
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May 18th
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May 18th
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candy psa: Icelandic Candy Smörgåsbord (part 1) →
candypsa: The entire haul. We only tested four because … we already had ice cream for lunch today. Ris Billed as “milk chocolate with rice kris pies,” we were both shocked at the size of the rice. (We’re used to Nestlé Crunch.) The rice balls were large, about the size of Kix cereal…. Our afternoon endeavor…
May 17th
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May 16th
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Show me the Awesome: 5 tips for program promotion →
sophiebiblio: Abby Morrow has some extraordinarily simple and smart advice for you on successful program promotion. Her experiences are in working with babies, kids & teens (or as she catchily calls them, “young patrons”) but her suggestions should work for programming librarians working with any age group. Don’t miss it! Read Abby’s blog: http://thelupinelibrarian.me/ And follow her on...
May 15th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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“so far this year, 146,466 books, 110,686 children’s books, 117,411 movies,...”
– Statistics Dashboard | Traverse Area District Library Click through - this library’s stats page is awesome! (via twonickels) STATS = AWESOME
May 14th
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. . . And Other Duties as Assigned →
Artwork by John LeMasney, lemasney.com. Some days (or weeks, or months) it’s hard to feel like I’m accomplishing anything. There’s always so much to do, and it’s hard to feel that there’s progress when the tasks—even when they’re fun—are repetitive. As soon as I finish a book order, I start another book order. We are also doing some realignment at my library, which made me really think about...
May 14th
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May 14th
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Things the library staff wish they could get away...
Patron: Hey hun, I'd like to check out these DVDs.
Staff member: Okay.
Patron: Thanks a bunch, dear.
Staff: You're welcome, darling.
Patron: What?
Staff: Oh, sorry did that make you uncomfortable?
May 13th
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Book Review: Corralled [2010] →
Two series of Lorelei James books were recommended as potential 50 Shades of Grey readalikes: Rough Riders and Blacktop Cowboys. Perhaps due to the raciness of the covers, the libraries in my system have only one of the former and most of the latter series, so I checked out Corralled, which is the first of the Blacktop Cowboys series (and yes, the entire series features shirtless cowboy covers). ...
May 13th
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May 11th
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May 9th
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May 9th
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Book Review: Smooth Talking Stranger [2009] →
Smooth Talking Stranger is the third book in a series about the Travis siblings by Lisa Kleypas. While another book in the series, Blue Eyed Devil, was mentioned once as a potential 50 Shades readalike, Smooth Talking Stranger was mentioned about 25% of the time in the sources I consulted. I listened to the audio version of this book, and found it quite addictive. It ended up being one of my...
May 9th
May 9th
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May 8th
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“She knew that one day, when she was a very old woman, she would dream this dream...”
– —Elizabeth Goudge, The Little White Horse (via ellenkushner) One of my mother’s very favorite books, which @mrsfridaynext needs to read!
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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SHOCKING
So @booksnyarn and I delivered our presentation this morning on “Erotica in the Library” at the FDR library and museum. A conference goer just came up to us and told us that she overheard the park rangers at the front desk: “Do you know what those women were talking about???”
May 3rd
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Book Review: Caught in Amber [2013] →
I am a big fan of Cathy Pegau’s book Rulebreaker, which came out in 2011. I was very pleased when Cathy asked earlier this year if I would be interested in reading the next two books in the series—thankfully, she didn’t stop at just one! However, for some reason she refuses to send me the ones she hasn’t written yet… Caught in Amber is the story of Nathan Sterling (the mining...
May 2nd
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Book Review: Sweet Surrender [2008] →
Maya Banks’ Sweet series was often recommended as a readalike for the 50 Shades trilogy in the sources I consulted, coming in third behind Sylvia Day’s Crossfire trilogy and the Anne Rice Beauty trilogy. Much like the Wicked Lovers series, the stories revolve around a set of friends and co-workers, with each book featuring a different pairing. The series was originally published from...
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April 2013
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Apr 29th
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healthscireflib: He wasn't wrong →
cbsundance: Patron: Do you have White Out that I can borrow? CC: Sure, I just need you to use it here at the desk. P: (Goes about whiting-out his paper) You know who invented this stuff? CC: No, who? P: I can’t remember her first name, but she was the mother of one of The Monkees -Mrs….
Apr 29th
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Apr 23rd
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Word of the Day: pantagruelian
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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shhh! no running in the library!: How do you do... →
intrepidheroine: Good morning, Tumblarians! I am in charge of Adult Summer Reading for a small, insulated community library. Getting people to participate in programs can be interesting, and the little experience I have running reading programs has been garnered at this job with very… Patrons read what they want and submit a short review of each book, which gets them a raffle ticket....
Apr 23rd
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